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This book explores the capitalist exploitation of digital media where creativity is a fundamental element in the production of digital goods. Yılmaz AlıÅkan focuses in particular on open-source hardware communities in which hackers give up a considerable amount of free time and labour to produce open technology they are not compensated for

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the authors argue that the social science literature on civil wars can be used help understand why no political solution was found between 2015 and 2022. The book explains how Russia, after seizing Crimea, was reacting to events it could not control and sent troops only to areas of Ukraine where it knew it would face little resistance (Eastern Donbas). Kremlin decisionmakers misunderstood the attachment of the Russian-speaking population to the Ukrainian state and also failed to anticipate that their intervention would transform Ukraine into a more cohesively 'Ukrainian' polity. Drawing on Ukrainian documentary sources, this concise book explains these important developments to a non-specialist readership.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Prohibition Comes to Rhode Island -- 2. 1924: Rumrunners Enjoy Success (But Not Vereign and Herreshoff) -- 3. Rumrunning in 1929: The Speedboats and Tactics -- 4. The Coast Guard in 1929: Its Weapons and Tactics -- 5. Laws and Policies Authorizing Coast Guardsmen to Fire Their Large-Caliber Guns -- 6. Summer 1929: Coast Guard Fires Machine Gun, Hits House in Tiverton (Idle Hour) -- 7. Winter 1929: Machine Gun Kills Three Crewmen, Wounds One (Black Duck) -- 8. Winter 1930: The Aftermath of the Black Duck Killings -- 9. Winter 1930: The Shootings Resume (Monolola and Madame X) -- 10. Summer 1930: The Carnage Continues (Mardelle) -- 11. Fall 1930: Machine Gun Tracers Fill the Night Sky at Watch Hill (Helen and High Strung) -- 12. Winter 1931: Machine Gun Fire Interrupts the Night on Aquidneck Island (Monolola and Alibi II) -- 13. Spring 1931: Judge Lambasts the Coast Guard for Another Death (868-G, Follow Me and Whispering Winds) -- 14. Summer 1931: Two Rumrunners Are Machine Gunned, Catch Fire and Sink (Yvette June and Eaglet) -- 15. Summer and Fall 1931: More Complaints of Machine Guns Endangering Civilians in Narragansett Bay (Mitzi) -- 16. Fall 1931: Four Rumrunners Are Machine Gunned on the Rhode Island-Massachusetts Border (Rhode Island, Overland, Je T'Aime and Nola) -- 17. 1932 and 1933: The Last Rumrunners Are Machine Gunned in Narragansett Bay (Kelble and Mitzi) -- Appendix. Coast Guard Shootings of Rumrunners in Rhode Island Waters, 1929-1933 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

""History paints war out to be a man's business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to self, family, home and country. Spanning 17 periods of world history, it compiles the names and daring deeds of 1,622 female fighters, from Bronze Age archers and Viking raiders, to helicopter pilots and commanders of aircraft carriers. Entries summarize heroes such as the Old Testament judge Deborah, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Aisha, Mary Spencer-Churchill, Calamity Jane, Cleopatra VII, Molly Pitcher, Aung San Suu Kyi and- surprisingly- Julia Child. Along with the famous stand the unheralded scrappers and risk-takers swept up in fierce crises."-Provided by publisher"--